Tsima Maria
Actor, writer. Deputy Art Director of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. Born in Cephalonia, she studied History-Archaeology at the University of Ioannina. Graduate of the Drama School of the Athens Conservatoire (1990), founding member of THESPI (University of Ioannina Theatre Company) and the “Stigmi” theatre organisation. Works in the theatre, cinema and television. She has published a novella, while in 2014 she won the 2nd Prize for Adapted Screenplay by the Hellenic Screenwriters’ Association for Elias Venezis’s Aeolian Land, and in 2017 the First Short Story Prize for her Heliotrope at the “Yorgos Seferis” contest of the Universita degli Studi di Palermo. In ANALOGIO 2007 she acted in The secret wound by Panagiotis Mentis , in 2008 in Mud by Vangelis Hatzigiannidis and in 2009 in Stamatis Polenakis’s Fish soup. Her play Straight rights was directed by Giorgos Paloumbis in ANALOGIO 2015 and in 2016-2017 it was produced for an Athenian theatre, directed by Eleni Georgopoulou.